DataJoint at SfN 2025

The DataJoint team is excited to connect with the neuroscience community at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2025 in San Diego this November 15-19! We're bringing insights from groundbreaking large-scale projects to practical tools that are shaping how labs manage and share their data today.

From Circuit Mapping to Career Pathways: Our SfN Journey

Our presence at SfN this year tells a story that begins with one of the most ambitious neuroscience projects of the decade and extends to the everyday challenges facing labs worldwide.

Saturday, Nov 15: The MICrONS Legacy

The Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) project represents a watershed moment in systems neuroscience by creating the largest functional connectome of mammalian cortex to date. This massive collaborative effort, recently published in Nature, has generated unprecedented multimodal datasets combining electron microscopy, calcium imaging, and electrophysiology across millions of synapses.

DataJoint CTO & CSO Dimitri Yatsenko will chair a nanosymposium diving deep into these insights:

Nanosymposium NANO003: Insights From the MICrONS Project
Saturday, November 15, 1:00–2:45 PM
📍 San Diego Convention Center, Room 30

Sunday, Nov 16: Building Your Career in Neuroinformatics

The increasing complexity of multimodal datasets in neuroscience presents not only technical challenges but also new career opportunities. This Sunday, Dimitri, alongside Mathew Abrams, Uma Karmarkar, and Stephanie Albin, will lead a professional development workshop. The session will focus on the expanding field of neuroinformatics and explore career paths beyond traditional academia. Panelists, who have successfully navigated diverse careers leveraging neuroscience skills and big data analysis, will share their journeys and offer advice to attendees on how to pursue similar unconventional roles.

Life After the PhD: Career Opportunities in Brain Data Science
Sunday, November 16, 3:00–5:00 PM
📍 San Diego Convention Center, Room 2

Whether you're a graduate student considering your options or a PI thinking about how to support your team's development, this session will illuminate the expanding opportunities at the intersection of neuroscience, data science, and software engineering.

Monday, Nov 17: Practical Solutions for Multimodal Data

The lessons from large-scale collaborations like MICrONS are directly informing how we approach everyday lab data challenges. Visit our poster to see how principled data management frameworks are making multiphoton imaging data more accessible and reusable:

Poster 12424: A Principled Framework for Compression and Standardization of Multiphoton Data
Session PSTR198: Techniques and Software for Imaging and Neural Analyses
Monday, November 17, 8:00 AM–12:00 PM

This work reflects DataJoint's current focus: helping labs capture, standardize, and share the increasingly complex multimodal datasets that modern neuroscience demands.

Let's Connect: Visit Booth 3326

Throughout the conference, our team will be at Booth 3326, ready to discuss:

• How collaborative data frameworks like those used in MICrONS can scale down to individual labs
• Strategies for managing multimodal datasets (ephys, imaging, behavior, and more)
• Your specific data management challenges and how DataJoint might help

From the largest circuit mapping projects to your next experiment, the thread connecting our SfN activities is clear: neuroscience is increasingly about managing, integrating, and sharing complex data.

We can't wait to see you in San Diego. Let's connect and explore what you are working on and how we can get there together.

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